The Straits Times, 20 October
2000. Plagued by a hard-drinking culture that is costing
lives, the country runs campaigns to teach people to cut
down on drink, or say no altogether. Twenty-two per cent
of South Korean men are said to be alcoholics; the country
has the highest alcohol consumption rate in the world.

By Park Eun-myo, The Korea
Herald, 19 October 2002. The spread of HIV and AIDS
is biting an increasing chunk out of the labour force each
year. The labor demographic hardest hit is the 20-30 age
group. UNAIDS, the United Nations HIV/AIDS program,
suspects the number of HIV-infected people in Korea to be
between 3,000 and 4,000.